Plus, commentary on the cancelation of Harry Potter and Hamilton

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CATEGORY: CULTURE (4 min)


** The Strange Fate of Hamilton and Harry Potter ([link removed])
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What do Hamilton, Harry Potter, and Parks and Recreation have in common?

All of them, writes Carl Trueman ([link removed]) , have fallen from grace in our swiftly-tilting cancel culture.

Five years ago they were the toast of the town. But, Trueman comments, “today’s virtuous icons are tomorrow’s vile scoundrels.”

Does this phenomenon simply reflect the fading fortunes of the Hillary Clinton brand of liberalism?

No, Trueman argues. That’s what happens if you reject permanent moral codes for critical theory and personal taste.

So we’re doomed to cultural volatility . . . unless we change a few fundamental things. See what you think of his diagnosis here ([link removed]) .

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CATEGORY: CONSERVATIVE HISTORICAL FIGURES (17 min)


** Dostoevsky’s influence on Solzhenitsyn . . . and what he can tell us today ([link removed])
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Hamilton may be canceled, but Dostoevsky’s novel Demons is more timely than ever, argues Daniel Mahoney ([link removed]) .

In fact, Mahoney thinks that Demons (which turns 150 this year) offers us a way out of our crippling contemporary crisis.

What you find in Dostoevsky today—and what resonated so deeply with Solzhenitsyn in the totalitarian 20th century—is insight into the human condition . . . and the way ideological revolution demonically disfigures it.

“Demons is a book for East and West alike,” Mahoney writes, “one for all those who wish to rescue the soul of modern man.”

Mahoney closes with a call to engage deeply with this work that “offers us so much light . . . amid the cultural, spiritual, and political darkness of our time.”

You can begin to answer that call by reading his full thoughts here ([link removed]) .

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CATEGORY: HISTORY (60 min)


** The War on History—And Why It Matters ([link removed])
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Cancel culture is coming for America’s past.

And not even Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass are safe.

To figure out how we got to this point—and how to turn the tables on this disturbing trend—we asked Professor Allen C. Guelzo to share his thoughts in an episode of Conservative Conversations with ISI.

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—Flannery O'Connor


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